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GEOTECHNICAL LABORATORY


The Geotechnical Laboratory (Laboratorio de Geotecnia) is, within CEDEX, the organization specialized in foundations, earth structures, soil and rock mechanics and, in general, all the Civil Engineering activities concerning the ground.

Geotechnical Laboratory

FIELDS OF ACTIVITY

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE - RESEARCH - TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT - INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

LABORATORY

Soils
Rocks
Geosynthetics
  • Identification
  • Strength
  • Deformability
  • Swelling and suction potential
  • Triaxial dynamic test
  • Resonant column test
  • Ultrasonic tests
  • Special tests
FIELD

In situ tests
Work control
Monitoring
  • Penetrometers
  • Pressuremeters and dilatometers
  • Land survey Works auscultation
  • Quality control of tests
  • Special tests
  • Geophysical techniques
OFFICE WORK

Linear works
Infrastructures
Hydraulic works
Harbours and coasts
Industry
  • Special foundations
  • Tunnels and galleries
  • Dams and reservoirs
  • Excavations and fills
  • Constitutive laws
  • Geological engineering
  • Dynamic analysis
  • Soil improvement
  • Environmental geotechnology
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